According to the 2014 NFL schedule released Wednesday, Seattle Seahawks fans will have only one opportunity to cheer on their team at home in prime time. A report by Pro Football Talk claims the home-field advantage caused by the 12th Man may be a major reason why.

Seahawks fans currently have only one prime-time game scheduled at CenturyLink Field in 2014. (AP Photo/Scott Eklund)

Citing league sources, the PFT report by Curtis Crabtree alleges that the NFL was wary of scheduling evening games at CenturyLink Field due to the Seahawks “track record of blowouts in nationally televised games played in Seattle the last several seasons.” To that end, three out of the Hawks’ four prime-time matchups will be on the road: a Monday night contest with the Washington Redskins on Oct. 6, the Thanksgiving night clash with the San Francisco 49ers on Nov. 26 and the Hawks’ last road game of the season against the Arizona Cardinals on Dec. 21.

The lone evening home game is the Thursday night season-opener against the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 4.

Since Pete Carroll took over the reins of the team in 2010, the Seahawks have hosted seven home games in prime time, winning them all and dismantling their opponents by an average score of 28-10. Last season, the Hawks destroyed the 49ers and Saints — teams they would face again in the NFC playoffs — in highly anticipated prime-time matchups by a combined score of 63-10.

Fueled in part by a the rabid 12th Man fan base — and the record-breaking noise they utilize against opposing teams — Carroll led Seattle to a 14-game home winning streak in 2012 – 2013, which was snapped in a 17-10 Week 16 loss to Arizona last season.

Though it seems odd to deprive fans of the Super Bowl XLVIII champions a chance to strut their stuff on national television, the NFL — a league built on parity — is likely to steer the country’s eyes away from lopsided affairs if at all possible. And the Seahawks, for so long a forgotten franchise on the NFL’s frontier, certainly don’t need the kind of exposure they may have before last year’s Super Bowl season.

But the league slate isn’t yet set in stone. In a tweak of the NFL’s scheduling policy, the leage can “flex” any team’s afternoon home game to an evening slot as early as Week 5. That means the Hawks’ home dates against the Dallas Cowboys (Oct. 6), Oakland Raiders (Nov. 2) and New York Giants (Nov. 9) are all newly in the mix for potential prime time this season.